The Spatial Pattern of the Sun-Hurricane Connection across the North Atlantic
Figure 1
North Atlantic hurricane counts. (a) Hourly interpolated tropical cyclone positions for Florida-landfalling Wilma and open-ocean Irene from the 2005 season. Points in gray (black) indicate a wind speed below (at or above) minimum hurricane intensity (i.e., 64 knots). For each region, the number of hurricanes that pass through it is recorded. A hurricane gets counts once regardless of how long it remains inside the region. (b) Regional hurricane counts for the study period 1851–2010.
